{"product_id":"9781565125087","title":"Peep Show","description":"\u003cstrong\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor(s): Joshua Braff\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eDavid Arbus will be graduating from high school in the spring of 1975. His divorced parents offer two options: embrace his mother’s Hasidic sect or go into his father’s line of work, running a porn theater in the heart of New York’s Times Square. He joins the family business. What else would a healthy seventeen-year-old with an interest in photography do? But he didn’t think it would mean giving up his mother and sister altogether. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e is the bittersweet story of a young man torn between a mother trying to erase her past and a father struggling to maintain his dignity in a less-than-savory business. As David peeps through the spaces in the screen that divides the men and the women in Hasidic homes, we can’t help but think of his father’s Imperial Theatre, where other men are looking at other women through the peepholes. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs entertaining as it is moving, \u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e looks at the elaborate ensembles, rituals, assumed names, and fierce loyalties of two secret worlds, stripping away the curtains of both. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eReview(s):\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Braff skillfully illuminates the failures and charms of a broken family . . . Haunts long after the final page.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003ePeople\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"A tumultuous family drama . . . the glimpse [Braff] offers of these strange and usually closed institutions makes for interesting and enlightened reading.\" --\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\"Although \u003ci\u003ePeep Show\u003c\/i\u003e could be a heavy-handed family drama, Braff chooses to keep the story light, sketching several funny but poignant scenes . . . The comic thrust, however, never detracts from the novel's intimate peek into a divided family.\" --\u003ci\u003eBookPage\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eISBN:  9781565125087\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ","brand":"Algonquin Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":40863263097038,"sku":"9781565125087","price":13.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0600\/7029\/7806\/products\/O_150c87f9-88f9-4cfa-8ba4-4424a78c0656.jpg?v=1644051733","url":"https:\/\/pickwickbookshop.com\/products\/9781565125087","provider":"Pickwick Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}